期刊名称:Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
印刷版ISSN:1802-548X
出版年度:2007
卷号:1
期号:2
出版社:Metropolitan University Prague
摘要:In the Western philosophic and literary tradition to be without home or country is a fate that both demands our loathing and pity. As Aristotle characterized it, a man born without a city is either a "beast or a god". Such beings Aristotle maintains, since they cannot properly be called human, have a natural tendency towards war and violence. Aristotle sites Homer in describing such a being as clanless, lawless, and hearthless. "The man who is such by nature at once plunges into a passion for war; he is in the position of a solitary piece in a game of draughts."